Basket-holder.



G. S. PAINE & A. D. PRIEST.

u BASKET HOLDER. APPLIGTIUN FILED MAB. 17, 190s.

Patented Jan. 18, 1910.

1177 ORNEYS ANDREW4 s. GRAHAM on. FNoTDL|TMoeRAPnm, msmmon, n. a.

UNITED sTATEs PATENT orrion.

' GEORGE S. PAINE AND ALTON D. PRIS'J?, MVOVWINSLOW, MAINE.

BASKET-Herpen.,

specification fLe'ters ra/cent.' 'Patented J an. Application led'March 17, 1909. Serial No. 483,933.

To all whom it may concern;

`Be it known that we, GEORGE IS. jPAINE and AALToN D. PRIEST, both citizens ofthe United States, and residents of Winslow,

in the county of Kennebec and State of Maine, have jointly invented a new and Improved Basket-Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description.

The purpose of our invention is to pro# vide novel features of construction` for a basket holder, particularly adapted forthe reliable holding of a plurality of berry baskets or other sm all fruit baskets at the front fication, in which similar characters zof ref-.

erence indicate corresponding parts' in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view, showingy the construction of the improved basket holder; Fig. 2 is a partly sectionalI front view of the basket holder and oney style of berry baskets shown mounted in position thereon, and both detachably ysecured byy similar novel details, the section `being indicated by the broken line 2-2 in Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of the improved basket holder, and of a differently constructed basket held in place by an en? gagement therewith of another detail of the invention. g

The improved holder may be formedy of light, plate metal or other suitable material, one detail thereof consisting of a curved band 5, termed a body plate, that ispreferably formed of sheet metal having proper width and length for effective service. The body plate 5 is transversely slotted as at a, a,

near the longitudinal center thereof, thesey slots being disposed vertically and spaced apart a proper distance. A belt 6 of suflicient length to adapt it to encircle the waist of the wearer of the holder device, is passed through the slots c, o, so as to connect the belt with the body plate 5, andis provided with a buckle 6ab at one end that'l enables the wearer to adjust the belt closely about the front of the person.

Two similar bracket arms, 7, preferably formed'of plate metal and having `a flange bent laterally thereon at one end thereof, as shown'at o, are secured on the front of the waist, so as to hold the'body rplate at the bodyplate atan equal distance each side of the longitudinal center of said plate, `by rivets or other means. A flange c is bent laterally on the front end of each bracket arm 7, on which flanges a back plate 8 is secured by rivets or other means, thus disposing said back plate across the person when in position for service. From the lower edge of the'back plate 8, a preferably plate metal shelf 9, isbent forwardly in a horizontal plane or at right angles to the back plate and having an equal length therewith. For convenience in use, the upper corners of the back plate 8 are rounded and in a like manner the front corners ofthe shelf 9 are also rounded.' As is indicated lby dotted lines .in Y

Fig. 1, a forward projection o is formed onV each flange o and extends below theshelf 9,`

contributing to its support.

An essential feature of the inventionconsists in the provision of two resilient tongues 10,'that areformed ory secured on the lback 'i `plate, 8. As is rindicated in Fig. 1, the tonguesy lOproject upward from the junction of thev back plate 8 with the shelf 9, andare formed integral therewith by u slits cutting each; tongue loose from the back plate, ,at each side edge and across the top edge thereof, as shown at d. The duplicate tongues may be notched centrally in their upper edges to render themfmore resilient, and as shown said tongues are spaced apart an equal distance from the longitudinal center of the backy plate 8. In or on the shelf 9, two spaced tongues 11 are formed 0r secured, that project their freek end toward the Vside edges ofthe shelf and are equally .spaced therefrom"re-y spectiyely; In the construction of the holder device' shown in Fig. 1, the tongues 11 arek formed integrally with theshelf 9'by slitting the material so as to provide free side edges e for each tongue, that are connected by transverse slits e.

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In use the. holder device is adapted to clamp berry baskets of different forms on the' shelf yor back piece and hold the baskets se.-

cured thereon, thus permitting thepuse of both hands for ,picking berries that. are

v.placed in the baskets.

In Fig. 2, a stylel of berry baskets A is iifo v shown, that have crevieed or slitted bottoms and to secure two baskets in position on the holder, the tongues 1l are raised at their free ends, and said ends are entered in appropriate crevices or slits in the bottoms of said baskets, the latter now being pressed toward each other, which will cause the tongues 11 to bind the baskets upon the shelf and hold them in contact with the back plate 8. i

Obviously, when the baskets A are filled with berries, they may be removed by sliding them from engagement with the tongues ll and empty baskets may be placed in position. In Fig. 3, a different style of a berry box or basket B is shown as mounted upon the holder device. The basket B is of a kind having upright side walls and a bottom wall that is spaced at its opposite edges fromthe side walls, thus affording a crevice between said edges and the side walls. In this case the boxes B are mounted and secured upon the holder device by inserting each tongue 10 on the back plate 8 up through a crevice in the basket that spaces the side edge of the bottom of said box from an adjacent side wall thereof.

It will be seen that upon an insertion of the duplicate tongues l0 up through the crevices mentioned in two boxes such as B, the latter when seated on the shelf 9 will be held securely on said shelf and when filled with berries, may be detached from the back plate by raising the boxes therefrom.

For convenience in illustrating and describing the improvement, plate metal has been mentioned as an avaliable material from which to make the same, but we wish to explain that bent wire or other material may also be used in its manufacture and the device be produced therefrom equally as serviceable as if formed of plate metal.

Having thus described our invention, we

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

l. A basket or box holder, comprising a back plate, a support therefor, a shelf extended forward from the support, and a tongue on the shelf adapted for entering a slit or crevice in the bottom of a basket and securing said basket on the shelf.

9.. A basket or box holder, embodying a curved body plate, a belt thereon, an upright back plate on the body plate, a shelf extended forward from the back plate, and duplicate tongues on the shelf for detachably securing baskets on the shelf.

3. A basket or box holder, embodying a curved body plate, a belt thereon, an upright back plate carried by the bodv plate, a shelf extended forwardly from the lower edge of the back plate, and two spaced tongues on the back plate adapted to engage baskets and detachably secure them on the holder.

4. A basket or box holder, embodying a curved body plate, a belt thereon, two spaced bracket arms projected forwardly from the body plate, an upright back plate mounted on the bracket arms, a flat shelf extended forwardly from the lower edge of the back plate and at a right angle thereto, two upwardly extended spaced tongues on the back plate free at their side edges and upper ends, and two similar tongues on the shelf spaced apart and having their free ends projected toward the opposite side edges of the shelf.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE S. PAINE. ALTON D. PRIEST.

lVitnesses H. S. GARLAND, G. A. CHAMBERLMN. 

